Candidate Profile:
Peter Baulch - ALP candidate for Nicklin

Contacts: 0438 467 710 PO Box 4990 SCMC QLD 4560 peter.baulch@queenslandlabor.org

History

Peter Baulch first came to the Coast as an infant and received his first years of schooling in Nambour. A regular visitor over his many years away, including in Government service in Brisbane and Canberra, Peter returned to his roots in the 1980s and settled with his wife and their son on their acreage property at rural North Arm. Peter is an active community organiser, involved in local public policy groups including RAID@Bridges, the Yandina and District Community Association, sustainable waste management group KADAG and OSCAR, the peak body of Sunshine Coast residents associations. He has also served on the executive committees of the North Arm Primary School and Nambour High School P&C associations. His passion is for a hinterland economy based not on core industries considered too smoky, dusty or noisy for the beach-side suburbs, but as the location for an agri-food industry that can underpin a strong and green Sunshine Coast economy. The hinterland rejected a huge satellite industrial suburb at rural Bridges that would have had thousands commuting across the region daily from the coastal population centres, but the same community is keen to embrace value-adding homegrown agribusinesses that process local produce. Peter is determined that Nicklin should continue to be a valued and integral part of the Coast experience and lifestyle, featuring strong communities with sustainable economies. He believes that the maintenance of all that is good about Sunshine Coast living requires voices from here in a Labor Government. 

Objectives

Peter’s priorities for Nicklin: I want to protect and improve the lifestyle and livability of Nicklin. That means • Defending the hinterland from becoming the default location for industries too dirty for the beach-side suburbs • Supporting a strong and sustainable local economy • Preserving the unique characters of our towns • Growing crops on the canelands, not houses • Protecting our environment and the regional landscape • facilitating agribusiness enterprises processing locally grown produce • improving public transport 

Three People I'd like to have to Dinner

Don Watson, John Humphrys and Dave Barry to hear ideas about the things I care about articulated as I would like to be able.

The Last Book I Read was...

Poll Dancing - Mungo MacCallum

The Last Music I Bought or 
Listened to was...

The Audreys - Between Last Night and Us

My Interests
(outside of this election)

Family and friends, beach walks, reading, blogging, cycling, cinema, aquaria, television, fishing, gardening, collecting, good wine, home cooking and saving the world.